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Ch 11 Flashcards

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1
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Where would a copper concentration mill tend to locate near, why?

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near a copper mine because it is a bulk-reducing industry

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Metal fabrication plants are an example of what?

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a bulk-gaining industry because separate parts are combined to make more complex and massive products

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3
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Situation costs are critical to a firm that wishes to____

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Minimize transport costs

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Explain the process of assembly plant locations.

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Bulk Reducing: closer to the raw materials

Bulk Gaining: closer to the market

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5
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Beer bottling is an example of what?

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Bulk-gaining industry

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Fabricated metal production is an example of what?

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Bulk-gaining industry

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Describe important factors of the bulk-gaining industry.

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Bulk-gaining industries make products that weigh more after assembly than before assembly

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A company that uses more than one ________ will often locate near break-of-bulk points.

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Mode of transport

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9
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Deduce the lowest-cost form of transporting goods.

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boat

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________ is the shipment of manufacturing inputs in a manner that allows for production flexibility.

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Just in time

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Three types of disruptions can affect just-in-time delivery manufacturing:

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Natural hazards, traffic, labor unrest

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12
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Explain why Containerization was developed.

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To facilitate long-distance transport by ship before transferring to trucks and trains

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An industry in which employee costs are a high percentage of expenses is what?

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Labor-Intensive Industry

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Explain Fracking.

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(hydraulic fracturing) The pumping of water at high temperatures breaks apart rocks in order to release natural gas

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Describe the process of Mexico’s maquiladora plants.

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Taking advantage of law environmental enforcement, have an advantage of proximity to U.S. markets

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Explain Mexico’s maquiladora plant locations.

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Factories built by the U.S. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico

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Gross domestic product (GDP) is the…

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Total values of outputs of goods and services produced in a country during a year

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18
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An example of a primary sector activity is…

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Mining

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19
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Provide examples for each sector of the economy

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Tertiary: Processing of computer information
Secondary: manufacturing
Primary: mining

20
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Describe the secondary sector of the economy

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Construction

21
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Describe the primary sector of the economy

A

Sheepherding

22
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People are more productive in more developed countries because they have access to more technology.
Compared to less developed countries, more developed countries have higher rates of literacy.
If a country has a large number of publishers and globally esteemed universities, you might summarise that the country is most like an MDC

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Characteristics of more developed countries

23
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Define HDI

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A function of a standard of living, education, and health

24
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The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is what?

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Compares the levels of indicators for females to those of males within a country

25
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Empowerment refers to

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The ability of women to achieve economic and political power

26
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What did Geographer Derwent Whittlesey do?

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He divided the world into 11 agricultural regions (not including his area of nonexistent agriculture), 6 of which were classified as found in MDCs and 5 as found in LDCs.

27
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when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings

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Subsistence agriculture

28
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found in isolated places in the world. The direction and frequency of hunger-gatherer migration depended on the movement of the plants.

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hunting and gathering societies

29
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Which type of agriculture is most commonly practiced by most people?

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Intensive-subsistence agriculture

30
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a way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically

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Pastoral nomadism

31
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Where are types of agriculture most commonly found?

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Shifting cultivation (less developed countries) in humid low-latitude and a new site is designated every few years

(Intensive subsistence = dry climate)

32
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Define key characteristics of intensive subsistence agriculture

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Greater use of animal power

33
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How could you increase crop yields?

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Double cropping

34
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What is the purpose of crop rotation?

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Maintaining the fertility of fields

35
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Describe the meaning of Sawah and Paddy

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Wet-rice

36
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Define key features of the term Truck farming

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Truck means “battering” or “exchange of commodities”

37
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Farms integrating into a large food production industry is known as what?

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Agribusiness

38
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________ model is used by geographers to explain the importance of proximity to the market in the choice of crops to the commercial farm.

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von Thünen

39
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Mixing crops and livestock is what?

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A system where crops provide food for livestock and the livestock provide manure for crop fertilization

40
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Explain the primary factor in von Thünen’s model

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Market location

41
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An area organized into an independent political unit is what?

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state

42
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What are the characteristics of a state?

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A politically bound area controlled by an established government that has authority over its internal affairs and foreign policy

43
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A state with control over its internal affairs has…

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Sovereignty

44
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Differentiate frontier and boundary

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frontier is a zone where no state exercises complete political control and the boundary is an invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory

45
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Cultural boundaries follow the distribution of cultural features.
Geometric boundaries are based on human constructs, such as straight lines.
Physical boundaries coincide with significant features of the natural landscape.

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Features of types of boundaries

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